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Title: The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration Frost, Max., 1873- , comp Walter, Paul A. F New Mexico. Board of managers for the Louisiana purchase exposition, 1904
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: Sante Fe, N.M., New Mexican printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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is 250, many children from outside attending theschools. There are two large mercantile houses doing anextensive business. A weekly newspaper, ElCombate, Span-ish and EngUsh, is printed in the town, which also has twochurches. Wagon Mound is situated on the main line of theAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and owing to itsclimatic advantages and beauty of surroundings is attractiveto health seekers. It is a great wool and stock shipping pointand the trading center for the Ocate and Mora Valleys. Therailroad company has a large sheep dipping plant here.Several fine farms are in the vicinity and offer accommodationsto health seekers. Roy is a town but a Httle over a year old and a station on theDawson Railroad which runs from Tucumcari in Quay county,to the great coal fields at Dawson in Colfax county. The townhas at this time about 300 inhabitants and is growing. Thereis a large wholesale mercantile establishment there andseveral smaller stores. A monthly paper, the Roy Observer,
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 209 is published. The town is surrounded by prosperous stockranches. Otero County. Area 6,870 square miles; population 7,500; assessed valua-tion in 1903, $1,570,864; post offices: Alamogordo, Avis,Cloudcroft, Hereford, High rolls, Brice, La Luz, Mayhill,Mescalero, Opal, Oran, Orange, Pine Springs, Russia, ThreeRivers, Tularosa, Weed and Wright. Excepting agricultural settlements at Tularosa, La Luz,Weed and a few other points, several scattered ranches and afew prospectors in the Jarillas and the Indians on theMescalero reservation, Otero county, in 1898, was practicallyuninhabited. It was only live years ago that it was created aseparate county, but since then it has grown rapidly inpopulation and wealth. About 4,000,000 acres of its area arejhowever, still subject to entry. Over 2,500,000 acres are openrange and 138,000 acres are included in the White Sandsadeposit of gypsum. The White, the Sacramento, the Hueco,the Jarilla and the Guadalupe ranges are the pri

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